Majella Cullinane
BornLimerick, Ireland
Alma materUniversity of St Andrews, Otago University

Majella Cullinane, born in Limerick, Ireland is an author based in New Zealand.[1]

Background

Born and raised in Ireland, Cullinane became a New Zealand resident in 2008. She has a MLitt. in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and completed a PhD in Creative Practice at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago.[2] Her doctoral advisors were Vincent O'Sullivan and Liam McIlvanney.[3] She currently lives in Port Chalmers, New Zealand.[4]

Cullinane draws inspiration for her work from myths and history, with her poems exploring nature and dreams, real and imagined people. Her collection Guarding the Flame takes its title from the myth surrounding Saint Bridgid’s flame in Kildare.

Works

Awards

Her first novel,The Life of De'Ath, was shortlisted for the 2016 Dundee International Book Prize.[4] and longlisted for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[5]

In 2014 she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.[6]

Cullinane has also received a Seán Dunne Young Writers' Awards for Poetry, an Irish Arts Council Award[2] and the Hennessy XO/Irish Times Literary Award for Emerging Poetry.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Majella Cullinane". www.munsterlit.ie. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Majella Cullinane". New Zealand Society of Authors & Writers Association. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  3. ^ Cullinane, Majella (2020). The colours of that place: setting and memory in Irish short fiction (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/9888.
  4. ^ a b "Dundee International Book Prize 2016 Shortlist Announced : News". University of Dundee. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Longlist 2019" New Zealand Book Awards Trust website. Retrieved 14 May 2019
  6. ^ "The Robert Burns Fellowship". Otago Fellows, University of Otago, New Zealand. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  7. ^ "New Irish Writing – Hennessy Literary Awards: Winners through the decades". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

Further reading

Excerpts from Guarding the Flame

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